Pricing in the Real World: Babies, Bots, and Billing

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Mostly Growth

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Mostly growth brings together go-to-market strategist Kyle Poyar and CFO CJ Gustafson who swap smart takes on growing revenue and running a company. From pricing and packaging to unit economics, AI trends, and the day-to-day realities of leadership, they share candid insights for CEOs, CFOs, and CROs who want to grow and operate at a high level. Serious topics tackled with a light touch for leaders who keep the trains on time.

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Pricing in the Real World: Babies, Bots, and Billing

Mostly Growth

44 minutes 14 seconds

2 weeks ago

Pricing in the Real World: Babies, Bots, and Billing

In this episode of Mostly Growth, CJ Gustafson, Kyle Poyar, and Ben Hillman go deep on pricing—how it’s discovered, negotiated, and perceived in the real world. The conversation spans Salesforce’s rapid-fire evolution of AI pricing models, unpacking the tradeoffs between consumption-based pricing, flat-rate enterprise licenses, and bundling AI to drive expansion and simplify buying decisions. The hosts also examine what Salesforce’s acquisition of Qualified signals for the AI SDR market, competition, and private equity, before zooming out to practical lessons on multi-year contracts, renewal dynamics, and when longer commitments actually pay off for buyers and sellers. Throughout, everyday analogies—from daycare costs to grocery store loss leaders and Instacart price variation—ground abstract pricing strategy in lived experience, making the case that pricing is less about theory and more about psychology, cash flow timing, and incentives.

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CJ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cj-gustafson-13140948/

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Kyle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-poyar/

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Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slackerstuff/

https://www.forrester.com/blogs/ai-agents-become-economic-actors-salesforce-rewrites-the-rules-of-pricing/

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https://seekingalpha.com/news/4532724-salesforce-to-acquire-qualified

https://www.mostlymetrics.com/p/your-guide-to-negotiating-multi-year-deals